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Musicology

a cadence whose final chord falls on a weak beat, read as a site where theory has coded musical gestures with gendered meanings.

In musicology, feminine ending refers to a cadence whose final chord falls on a weak beat, read as a site where theory has coded musical gestures with gendered meanings. This meaning comes from McClary (1991) in Feminine endings.[1]

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beat3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs cadence3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs chord3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

McClary, S. (1991). Feminine endings. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816695058

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